UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Penn State men's basketball program teamed up with Centre County Youth Service Bureau to help provide a holiday shopping spree for local children from the State College area, helping to make holiday wishes a reality for 19 local children Sunday.
Each Nittany Lion player and staff member was paired with a local child for the shopping trip and helped each child fill up their shopping cart with everything from toys, to clothes, to televisions and video game consoles.
Each child received upwards of $250 with which to shop thanks to generous contributions from local companies.
This is the fifth-straight year that the Nittany Lion basketball program has teamed up with Centre County Youth Service Bureau to help provide a holiday shopping spree for local youth. The Nittany Lions also pair with Centre County Youth Service Bureau each August to help provide children with back-to-school supplies before the school year gets started.